Back in about 2016, I bought a 4K 40" display from one of those no-name South Korean brands on ebay (the AMH A399U), for just under $500. Great monitor, served me well for years, couldn't bring it with me in my last move.

Fast forward to 2024, and I'd like a replacement (and ideally after a decade there'd be an option with a higher-than-60Hz refresh rate, and/or higher-than-300nits brightness). On doing some research there is... very little like that on the market.

4K displays have all shrunk to 32 inches (or even 27), which I find too small for a large desk setup. All the >32 inch displays are in weird widescreen aspect ratios, and most of them sacrifice significant vertical resolution. Or one can go up to 43"+, where all the panels seem to be repruposed TVs, many of them with text rendering issues (no 4:4:4 chroma), and/or OLEDs with text rendering issues + burn-in risk, which makes them kind of suspect for coding work.

Is there any surviving (even off-brand) source of 38"+ 4K displays in a standard 16:9 aspect ratio?

I work in computer vision and regularly follow Arxiv for new papers. Sometimes I find a gem, but a lot of the papers I find are from curated sources who do a bit of sifting.

I’m curious: how do you sift through new research? Do you have automated methods to highlight papers by keyword? Or something else? Do you rely heavily on curation?

Hello hackers,

I've launched a website specifically for sharing scenes, complete with descriptions and timestamps from various films and TV shows. I'm reaching out to gather your perspectives and recommendations in these domains to improve the site and extend my outreach.

Link : https://scenestamps.com

You are not required to register/login to browse the site.

Scenestamps Features:

1. Search : You can directly search for a scene or a source.

2. Upload Posts : You can register with your google account, login and start posting right away. Unlike other sites in this specific domain, users are allowed to upload posts.

There are two types of posts - scene - source

Source is a movie,tv show, documentary, etc... One source can have multiple scenes

While creating a scene post, source can be selected there.

Scene post will have the timestamp fields. There are two types of it: - single - one input field of timestamp in which the scene happens. - from-to - two input fields, from and to within which the scene takes place.

3. Share posts : Share feature is available on both source and scene posts, with which you can share the post to your favorite social media platforms

4. Tagging system : You can add tag to the scene posts. You can also get all the scenes that has that tag name by clicking on it.

I think people wanting to create scenes is quite a small audience, but I want to make this the best it can possibly be so please post any problems or suggestions in the replies or at reddit.com/scenestamps.com or message me x.com/gjpx_ if you prefer.

Interested in stories from bay area or other tech metro folks who moved to Switzerland and have a career and life there now. How is it, why did you move, what is your story?

I’m looking for specific training, executive level for AI, I have good technical knowledge but for professional purposes I’d love to add this kind of training to my background.

Welcome online courses, but would prefer reputable university / business schools.

Also, looking for one that it is not bull*, I’m afraid maybe it is very soon for a good executive training.

Thanks!

I’ve been using vim for years, but after a traumatic brain injury my muscle memory for typing got a bit scrambled at the same time my need for something that was always installed everywhere dwindled. I’d kind of like to finally see what the deal is with emacs, but as holding down multiple keys simultaneously is now more than a bit hard (and so is memorizing all the chords) I’m looking for a game or typing tutor or similar sort of experience that can help me pick up emacs gradually and help me build a new muscle memory without having to actually work on anything important.

Over the years I’ve seen a bunch of games aimed at getting used to vim-style navigation, but not come across anything emacs-centric.

Alternatively I suppose I could just got evil, but as I’ve not used emacs practically I’m a bit confused how you don’t end up with a hybrid of home row touch typing plus having to wander about for whatever chords remain, which seems more like the worst of both worlds rather than the best.

I have a SaaS startup in the ecommerce space; it's like Shopify but with a no-plugin approach. The storefront is open source (Vue Project + JS SDK) and available on GitHub, allowing everyone to build their storefronts and deploy them on our servers. This gives it the flexibility of Woocommerce and Wordpress. We are two founders + one employee + zero investors. I personally wrote all the code for the backend, frontend, iOS, Android app, and more so we can figure out the product side at any level. Also most of our users are agencies, primarily from North America and Europe. Our revenue comes from selling deals to agencies, freelancers, and business owners. So, the next step is making ARR.

I don't want to raise money from investors because they thought my nationality was not ok to secure funding. Therefore, I'm looking to scale without their support, and I'm curious about what startups do after their Series A or B rounds to scale their business. I'd like to understand their scaling strategies and replicate them with my available resources.

Every piece of advice or reference is worth a lot.

No subscription sounds too good to be true long term considering API calls costs and their rabbit hole storage.

I've spoken to a bunch of people who use BI tools to embed analytics into their apps with an iframe. Nobody seems to like what they get despite some big players (PowerBI from Microsoft, Looker from Google, Tableau from Salesforce, Metabase etc. etc.) -- (Full disclosure: our team working on a solution to this)

Hoping to collect some user feedback as we build a personalized learning product at WorldClass (https://getworldclass.app/). Think Duolingo but for any topic, with a way to interact with your lessons in real-time and keep track of your knowledge as it grows.

If that’s something you’re interested in, please follow the link below to the survey.

We would love to hear from you! This is not a sales pitch; we just really want honest feedback.

https://airtable.com/appUUIGyEEbTseSEC/pagqTE3fACmH6Ujxw/form

Wouldn't it be cool to have a Supabase for SQLite?

The core idea here is: let SQLite run next to your application on the server; but have all features a client-server database give you.

What's the spec for this?

- SQLite runs next to server as production database

- That way, reads and writes are very fast

- In dev, some sort of worker auto-copies the prod DB to the local repo. Production bugs can be reproduced easily and code fixed quickly

- Have an interface that lets you access, view, and modify data in the production DB, kind of like Firebase. Might need a server of its own... or couldn't that just be the app server itself?

- SQLite auto-backs up to a bucket (like Litestream)

I kinda really want this, but haven't found anything quite like it. I've seen Turso, but it seems they focus more on global replication instead of the OSS developer experience I'm looking for.

What do you think? What am I missing?

I'm a penetration tester with more than 5 years of experience working for a well known big4, and now I'm starting my own company.

This being said, I need information about prices, so if you have performed a penetration testing for your company, could you please tell me what what was the duration of the pentest and how much did you pay?

Apart from that, since I'm just starting, I'm looking for a few clients to build my portfolio, so I will be offering a free web application 1 week penetration test for the first 5 people from HN that contact me.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lautaro-morandi/

Hey HN, we're super excited to share something we've been working on: OpenLIT. After an engaging preview that some of you might recall, we are now proudly announcing our first stable release!

*What's OpenLIT?* Simply put, OpenLIT is an open-source tool designed to make monitoring your Large Language Model (LLM) applications straightforward. It’s built on OpenTelemetry, aiming to reduce the complexities that come with observing the behavior and usage of your LLM stack.

*Beyond Basic Text Generation:* OpenLIT isn’t restricted to just text and chatbot outputs. It now includes automatic monitoring capabilities for GPT-4 Vision, DALL·E, and OpenAI Audio. Essentially, we're prepared to assist you with your multi-modal LLM projects all through a single platform and we're not stopping here; more updates and model support are on their way!

*Key Features:*

- *Instant Alerts:* Offers immediate insights on cost & token usage, in-depth usage analysis, and latency metrics. - *Comprehensive Coverage:* Supports a range of LLM Providers, Vector DBs, and Frameworks - everything from OpenAI and AnthropicAI to ChromaDB, Pinecone, and LangChain. - *Aligned with Standards:* OpenLIT follows the OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions for GenAI, ensuring your monitoring efforts meet the community's best practices.

*Wide Integration Compatibility:* For those already utilizing observability tools, OpenLIT integrates with various telemetry destinations, including OpenTelemetry Collector, Jaeger, Grafana Cloud, and more, expanding your data’s reach and utility.

*Getting Started:* Check our quickstart guide and explore how OpenLIT can enhance your LLM project monitoring: https://docs.openlit.io/latest/quickstart

We genuinely believe OpenLIT can change the game in how LLM projects are monitored and managed. Feedback from this community could be invaluable as we continue to improve and expand. So, if you have thoughts, suggestions, or questions, we’re all ears.

Let’s push the boundaries of LLM observability together.

Check out OpenLIT here: https://github.com/openlit/openlit

Thanks for checking it out!

I grew up in eastern wa, BS EE, MS CS, first 3 years teaching CS at a state school and currently a patent examiner. I'm mid excited about the job b/c I expect to learn cool stuff, and because I realize my resume isn't competitive, especially in this job market.

That said, I'm also self-aware that I can't afford to live in Seattle with this job. I'm still applying and hoping to get a better role, and trying to build users for a consumer web startup. We're default alive on AWS credits, MVP built&passed first 20 users test, the challenge is the chicken//egg problem of all online communities.

I have been reading this board for like a decade. This is all the stuff I think is cool. I don't feel like I've found it in Seattle; this seems like a very 9-5 town where most who still have jobs want to recreate after work. And power to them! If I was making that money, living in this city, and had been since graduating from my BS I would feel the same. That said, I can't afford this, and want to have some dry powder to pursue the theoretical better opportunity that I hope is in my future.

I don't want to fully leave WA because all the people who care about me live here, and I've been close enough to the edge to realize how important it is to be in driving distance of someone who cares about you. Does anyone have a recommendation on how I can lower my cost of living, and ideally find some builders?

Hello HN!

My 16 year old nephew lives in an East African nation where there is practically no internet access.

Last week he asked me for advise as to how to go about training an open source LLM using an on disk Wikipedia (~80 GB).

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hi,

I am building a notes application that automatically finds related notes - thinkdeli.com. I want to implement end-to-end encryption sometime soon.

To find related notes, I create embeddings, add them to an index, and find the nearest neighbors.

I am creating embeddings of the user's notes locally using transformers.js. But setting up the pipeline takes up a lot of memory (around 400+ MB on Chrome). This makes it somewhat impractical to use on older devices.

Is there a more efficient way to create embeddings locally?

Creating embeddings via an API will be more efficient, but that would mean sending users unencrypted notes over the cloud to the service. Edit - What I mean is this. The user's notes must be unencrypted and readable as plain text on the server to create embeddings. This defeats the purpose of end-to-end encryption.

I would appreciate any pointers. Thanks a lot!

I work at an international school and an incident has recently arisen. A disgruntled employee has downloaded the parent email list (thus the thievery) and is sending defamatory emails a few times a week based on meeting minutes and general gossip. The individual is switching emails each time (they are using protonmail and gmail accounts). I also suspect that they are using an AI language filter or some sort of program that alters writing style.

The suspect list has been narrowed down to a handful of admin.

My first inclination is to send different (juicy as it were) information to different people coming from a teacher unaware of the situation and claim that I accidentally used bcc instead of cc and apologize in an email sent to all the admin staff for "my poor use of tech", thus lessening the suspicion of misinformation. This would hopefully entice the perpetrator to share some identifying info in their next email.

What do you think is the best course of action?

I know this is weird, but there are a lot of people here who are smarter than me and I figured it was worth a shot.

Which is more robust/higher paying?

I'll start. "Orthogonal".

I will assume everyone understands the security problem when a build isn't reproducible. In short, just because something is open source, doesn't mean the compiled application you're downloading and installing hasn't had any malicious modules added to it before being compiled. It's not enough for something to be open source, it has to be reproducible as well.

I don't think there are any reproducible linux distros. Every one I have looked into requires you to download and install from an image file. That means you must trust the developer who signed that image because they could add all kinds of malicious code to it.

We always suspected that winows, mac, android, ios are spyware for the intel agencies and now it has been proven that ios has a backdoor most likely put there by NSA.

Why don't we suspect the devs of linux distros to do the same thing?

What do we really know about the people signing the image files? do you even know their names? It's also a bit crazy how so many people trust SELinux when its made by NSA.

Is this the reason why most people don't bother trying to potect their data from the intel agencies? No one wants them doing their unconstitutional and illegal snooping in our data, them finding out that we like to listen to the rick roll music video but maybe it's simply impossible to prevent that, 100% impossible no matter how hard you try.

LSMs won't help us when the distro itself is corrupted.

Or do you actually trust that your distro image file that you installed from and any updates later aren't compromised? Tell me which distro you're using and what you know about the devs who sign the image file and updates and why you trust them? Keep in mind they can be forced to compromising the distro and forced to keep silent.

Been looking for a job since December 2023-- for the 1st few months of 2024 there was maybe 1 job a month. (Edited to add: this was in January/Feb, when I was only seeing 1-2 job posts a month. I am seeing more now, but being ghosted, see below)

A few more jobs now, but still havent had a single interview. I send my CV and it goes into some blackhole and I never hear anything back.

I could understand if I was being rejected after interviews, but Im not even getting to that stage. My CV isn't that bad, and previously I used to get calls from recruiters all the time. Now I'm having to chase recruiters who are ghosting me.

I am worried about how this large gap will look on my CV.

Starting to lose hope a little-- and starting to feel a little desperate.

Is it just me? Im in the UK.

I'm currently working on a project (SaaS) that I intend to release on GitHub. I want the code to be freely available for anybody to read and contribute. I also want companies to be able to freely (both "as in beer" and "as in speech") use it ("use" as in "fulfil their own needs") without having any legal doubts / problems (a-la GPL / AGPL viral licenses). Last, but not least important, I want to avoid AWS-like predators from taking the project, shoving the "Elastic" prefix, hosting it and profiting from my work (making it extremely difficult for me to be able to compete and economically benefit from my own work).

I have been reading the terms and conditions of several licenses, including the Commons Clause, AGPL, BUSL, etc... and they seem to be designed for that purpose (with more or less restrictions), but judging by the reactions of people commenting (here and other places on the internet) about these licenses, I fear that using any of these will automatically attract hate and disdain to my project, dooming it from day 1.

Is there a license that I can use to achieve all this? Or is this the typical situation in which I must pick 2 out of 3?

Almost every facet of human life in our current civilization is being funneled through corporations trying to watch and make money from everything we do.

And the average HN user seems to support it, likely because they work for those companies.

Today, EFT's developer Battlestate Games released a new addition to Escape from Tarkov, the Unheard Edition. This is a new pricing tier above the previously retired 'Escape from Darkness' edition, which notably was sold with the bulletpoint of "Including all future DLC". Unheard is incredibly expensive, clocking in at approx. $250 for a new purchaser, or about $100 for someone upgrading from the EoD edition.

What does Unheard include? A very barebones single player or Co-Op PvE mode (EFT is traditionally PvPvE) that replaces the traditionally human-operated PMC opponents with bots crewed by some of the Boss goon's AI routines. Importantly, this 'single player' mode is still hosted on BSG's servers so even starting a single player game requires several minutes of matchmaking time, you can suffer disconnects from the server, and so on. In addition to this there are pay-to-win aspects that touch the existing PvPvE mode such as larger inventory size and an item that prevents the AI mobs from shooting at you until you're closer to them. There are also some unique-to-Unheard-owners items like a new melee weapon and an armband that appear to be Unity store asset flips.

Naturally, corners of the internet that care about this game are in an uproar about this, primarily around the revoked promise of the EoD edition including all future DLCs and the supremely barebones version of the single player mode that BSG has introduced compared to the feature full and modable 3rd party versions of the same, such as SPT or Single Player Tarkov, complete with concerns that BSG will now C&D those projects since they have their own offering.

I just thought it was interesting to see another live running enshittification in progress. In some respects, EFT was in a great place owing to several very good updates in a row and new changes/additions to the game mechanics. This move seems to be purely profit chasing and appears to be poisoning the well at a time when the community generally holds the game in decent regard.

So I was experimenting with Swift without knowing any Swift code to see if I could generate an app.

To my surprise I see a repeating theme:

- ChatGPT generates ample amount of code that eventually runs after refinement through multiple prompts.

- Solution hits a hard edge case and we need to rework, refactor stuff, involving even more prompts to get it working (this is understandable as more tech debt is introduced)

- Solution hits an edge case and eventually ChatGPT4 starts hitting a loop saying it has a new solution or it fixed something but it really didn't.

- Manual inspection of code and simple logic removes that edge case from that solution.

To me this was an interesting to see: ChatGPT4 seems quite apt at handling requirements but it is unable to see very obvious mistakes or one liners.

I've spent about a week developing an iOS app with ChatGPT4 and these are my findings. I'm wondering if anybody else has experimented with generating code they have no experience or knowledge of and what your experience was like.

I'm getting like 10 sms texts a day for the previous owner of my phone number, who hasn't had the number in a long time. Is there a way to stop this? I tried responding to opt out a few times but just kept getting new texts from new numbers.

Somehow I just lost all joy in playing video games. I loved them when I was a kid and throughout high school and college. I'm wondering if this happened anybody else and, if so, why you think it happened, and if there have been any ways that you've rekindled your appreciation for the art form.